Israel vows to strike Hamas after Gaza rocket fire
JERUSALEM: Israel vowed to strike back at Hamas on Sunday after renewed rocket fire from Gaza two weeks after the end of a bloody war in the battered Palestinian territory."We've…
Labor Party official arrested in Rafah, Egypt installs surveillance equipment along border
CAIRO: Security forces on Saturday detained Magdy Ahmed Hussein, secretary general of the Labor Party, for allegedly entering Gaza illegally.Magdi El-Kurkur, a member of the Labor Party, said Hussein was…
Independent MP slams Nasrallah's comments on Egypt
CAIRO: Independent MP Hamdeen Sabahy censured Hezbollah leader Sayed Hassan Nasrallah for attacking "the Egyptian political regime. "Nasrallah's statements seek to engage Egypt in a war and that is something…
Egypt food prices inch down, but is it enough?
CAIRO: After more than a year of hardship, food vendors around Cairo are just now beginning to breath a sigh of relief as they see sky-high food prices receding. Many…
Foreign stars light up French comics fest
From Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian creator of "Persepolis, to cutting-edge artists from Seoul or South Africa, star authors joined some 200,000 fans in southern France this week for the world's…
A KHAWAGA'S TALE: Avoiding travel plague
THE HAGUE: I was struck down with gastroenteritis last week, not that surprising in Egypt you may think, except I wasn't scoffing down fuul and tameya in Embaba, but contemporary…
Moral Manoeuvring a.k.a the game of chess that never ends
I've always loathed chess, the way you hate anything you've never been particularly good at. I'm not good at it is because I don't have a brain suited to making…
How Michell should deal with Hamas
The recent appointment of George Mitchell as special envoy to the Middle East isno doubt a positive sign of President Obama s commitment to the region, signaling that there will…
Barack Obama's missing freedom agenda
On his second full day in office, President Barack Obama made a major gesture toward restoring the Constitution and the rule of law by signing two executive orders: one closed…